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@ellisrosales.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 6:53 PM

#TimeTravelAuthors 3 October ghost/spirit
Came across this editing today. Ash speaking.
#TimeShift #specfic #WIPSnips

Photo, no descriptionI wonder who she is. I turn it over in case there is a date or other clues on the back, but all it says is Essie, written in pencil. Is that short for Esther? Estelle? Studying the woman in the photograph again, I am bedazzled by her eyes, and feel myself falling through time... The black-and-white photo turns sepia, then a garish 70s Instamatic colour photo. Her playful smile widens to a grin, her hand reaching forward and pulling me – the viewer, over half a century later – into the picture. In an instant I am enveloped by a hubbub of noise and voices, but when I turn my head to look around, it's like moving in jelly, and what I see leaves traces of movement, wavy stripes that give me vertigo. I'm in-between worlds or dimensions where no one can see me. Our hands – mine and this Essie – represent the boundary of a bubble. Hers is a vibrant technicolour world; I’m in a monochrome jellylike bubble outside of time. excerpt from TimeShift, a specfic novel by Liz Rosales
@penumbraminemmward.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 5:24 PM

#TimeTravelAuthors #relicoftimewar #CretaceousConspiracy
D3- Prompt word ghost or spirit
Technically Milady has been dead for thousands of years, so she's a spirit now, while Davin just got shot at close enough range that the impact on his vest stopped his heart and he is 'visiting' the afterlife.

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@miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 4:55 PM

#TimeTravelAuthors 3

Using Buffer so I can go back to screenshotting my stories instead of retyping.

#TheDragonblood: Upon meeting up with some thieves, our party faces off against a Soul Devourer.

#InReverse: Meg's twin sister Gem seems almost ghostly for a moment. What is going on?

#TimeTravelAuthors October 2026 1. Introduce your story (optional: spooky and/or like a Twilight Zone episode) 3. Saturday excerpt (optional word: ghost/spirit) 5. Does anyone see any important and/or historic events? 7. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: embarrass) 9. Most cynical character 11. A non-book example of time travel that stands out to you? (Ewan Stone) 13. Would you like to be friends/hang out with any of your characters? 15. Weirdest marketing idea that worked 17. Saturday excerpt (optional word: trick/treat) 19. Would the story change substantially if the protagonist (or whole cast) was another gender? (QuasiTemporal) 21. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: alone/haunt) 23. Any monsters in your story? 25. Most and/or least attractive characters 27. Do any characters play pranks/tricks? 29. A scary moment (post-sized) 31. Author's choice/promo To join, answer the prompts on odd days, hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors Even days are for posting whatever!I suddenly pick out a magical resonance in the distance. I look in that direction but see nothing. It sounds sort of like a soul, but… off, somehow. Not a pleasing sound. “What’s that magic coming from over there?” I ask. Aimetor frowns. “Ghost, maybe? Hopefully not a…” Aimetor curses in Nemorian, and I can hear the terror in their aura. “Essōr anămōm!” Aimetor shouts. The mage starts to respond, then stops and turns to the invisible source of magic in alarm. The two non-mages turn around as well, looking around in confusion. Kalai looks to be freaking out. “Er, Alios?” I whisper. “Right,” Alios’ voice says after a second. “Brr. Soul Devourer.” ‘We did not bring it here!’ Kalai shouts, regaining composure. ‘Nor us,’ the mage replies. ‘Foroug’s sword can destroy Soul Devourers. I did not know that particular enchantment would come in handy.’ ‘Strike true, or it will drain the sword’s magic and likely break the enchantment,’ Kalai warns. ‘I can control it from a distance; Iubiugra will guide our strike.’ ‘We are not giving the sword to a stranger!’ the mage says. ‘I have this.’ They ask their companion for the sword, most likely in Akewan, because Alios doesn’t translate. They then start levitating the sword and send it in the direction of the Soul Devourer. ‘A little farther!’ Kalai calls. ‘No, too much!’ The sword suddenly drops to the ground. “What just happened?” I whisper. “It cut the thread,” Alios responds. I make a questioning sound, confused, and Alios continues. “The magical thread connecting the sword to… No time. Ask me later.” The mage talks to the little one in camo, who takes off the belt of magical supplies and runs off after the sword. ‘You need someone who can sense the spirit. Someone without a soul to risk.’ Aimetor gestures at me. ‘It has to be this one.’ Aimetor turns to me. “Felix, you must be the one to deal with it. It will sap your magic if it touches you, but it cannot eat your soul because you have none.”With a pained expression in his eyes, the doctor picks up the gun from the table. I hear the muffled pow of a gunshot as he turns around and shoots Gem in the chest. She sits there in confusion for a moment or two, unmoving and bleeding out. My vision is very blurry now, and I feel on the brink of death. I try to think through the brain fog. If I’m going to die, then so be it, but I won’t just lie here while this psycho doctor shoots people. Adrenaline now coursing through my body, I rip out the tube attached to my arm. Gem slowly turns to lie face down on the bed right beside me. I reach for her, but my arm seems to pass right through her and I roll over onto my stomach. For a moment I wonder if she vanished, but no, she’s just on the other side of me. I painfully push myself up and reposition myself to be sitting on the side of the bed. I stare as the pool of blood from where she was shot trickles upward towards me, towards the wound in my chest. What is going on? The doctor sets something down that emits a dim glow, and points the gun at me. I hear a whap as something tugs me forward. I feel searing pain for a moment, and then nothing. The blood on my chest is gone and even my dress looks intact. How – ? The doctor places the gun on the table once more. Once I get over the shock of what just happened, I get up and hobble over to the table. I pick up the gun and inspect it closely. It just looks like a regular gun. But somehow… it healed me? He sacrificed my sister to save me? However he did it, that’s awful!
@juliebihn.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 4:52 PM

Significant but out-of-context spoilers #HistorytownAZ; click/read the image if you dare!  

My #ghostly tears vanished as they struck the ground.

#TimeTravelAuthors

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL SPOILERS styled like the "NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC" CDs. I may be old. Generated at https://pixelframe.design/now-thats-what-i-call-music-logo-font-cover-generator/ I was a ghost, trapped inside Liam's yard. A ghost who might die of thirst or hunger. At least I could sit on the stoop; it existed in the present and in 2013 both. So I curled up at its edge and wept. My ghostly tears vanished as they struck the ground. I want so much to go home. Immigrants' Journey by Julie Bihn, available for preorder#TimeTravelAuthors October 2026 1. Introduce your story (optional: spooky and/or like a Twilight Zone episode) 3. Saturday excerpt (optional word: ghost/spirit) 5. Does anyone see any important and/or historic events? 7. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: embarrass) 9. Most cynical character 11. A non-book example of time travel that stands out to you? (Ewan Stone) 13. Would you like to be friends/hang out with any of your characters? 15. Weirdest marketing idea that worked 17. Saturday excerpt (optional word: trick/treat) 19. Would the story change substantially if the protagonist (or whole cast) was another gender? (QuasiTemporal) 21. Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: alone/haunt) 23. Any monsters in your story? 25. Most and/or least attractive characters 27. Do any characters play pranks/tricks? 29. A scary moment (post-sized) 31. Author's choice/promo To join, answer the prompts on odd days, hashtag #TimeTravelAuthors Even days are for posting whatever!
@ellisrosales.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 3:26 PM

#TimeTravelAuthors 3 Oct
There are a lot of beings leaving rn; one of them my partner of 20 yrs. This morning I thought back to the grief scenes in #AndinoAndina and while still true, it hits differently. If you have lost someone and want some distract me reading, maybe try it?
#Specfic #WIPSnips

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@candacehill.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 3:20 PM

#TimeTravelAuthors D3 Ghost/Spirit

Before he leaves home for the Royal Navy Academy, Rory Ransom asks his parents exactly how his birth father died. In the writing of this story I became very fond of Roger Ransom and he shows up as Jeanette’s loving first husband.

Text excerptOctober post prompts.
@rammwriter.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 1:45 PM

D3. Dent imagined ethereal voices in the fog as he slogged up the hill, only getting the fear under control when they reached level ground. I’m a scientist, he thought impatiently, ghosts don’t exist and even if they do, they can’t harm me. Those trackers on the other hand…

#timetravelauthors

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@rammwriter.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 1:38 PM

The best I can offer is Leaf.

#wipsnips #amquerying #sffwriters #writingcommunity #writersky #timetravelauthors #speclit #amwriting #authors #thrillerwriters #writers

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@vjknipe.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 10:25 AM

#TimeTravelAuthors D3
Hot air choked his lungs. The stark morning sun drained the life from people, leaving them washed out, pale ghosts of themselves.

A list of actions for the time travel authors game. October 3rd Saturday excerpt (optional word: ghost/spirit)An advert for Her Borrowed Grave. The book cover shows a silhoutetted figure walking on rain-washed, cobble streets. behind them is a winged serpent in an intaglio such as you might find on a signet ring.
@ewanstone.ukOct 3, 2026, 8:30 AM

Happy Saturday, #TimeTravelAuthors!

In this spooky (not really) snip, Therese catches Marcus having an important conversation with the personality living in the ship, who only he can see. More than a little like a #ghost!

#writingcommunity #writingprompts

Marcus was alone, and like her was dressed for the cold outside. But he was talking to someone. Not unusual, as he’d often spoken to Rune like she was in the room with them at the onset of their mission. But this was different. Marcus’ eyes with their mechanical irises were aimed across and down, very definitely locked on a specific place on the corridor wall. He was speaking softly, as if to someone standing close. And as they watched, he lifted one hand and placed it against something that they could not see.“It won’t be the same out there,” he said. “I need it to be like this. It’s… That’s kind of the whole point, Rune.”It felt like eavesdropping, but she knew they’d not get away and grant him privacy without the rustle of her clothing being heard. Still, as they watched, Marcus cast them an unsurprised glance over his shoulder. He acknowledged them with a smile.“I don’t mind that they can hear,” he said, evidently not to her or Hal. “I’m not embarrassed. What I want is…”He shook his head, returning his face to the invisible Rune. “Never mind. Like I said, I’d like to talk properly when I get back. Is that alright?”Silence. Marcus reached out. Therese thought she could sense the ghosts of strands of hair running through his fingers.“Thank you, Rune,” he said.
@candacehill.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 3:02 AM

#TimeTravelAuthors D1 Twilight Zone.
Consider if you will a future world that is no longer livable. Scientists invent a time machine to send Travellers to the past to beg for mercy. Would you believe? Would you help?

Text excerpt.
@penumbraminemmward.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 2:25 AM

#TimeTravelAuthors #relicoftimewar
D1-
On an island far away, two paleontology grad students meet a man they can't kill and are transported to the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, where a war between immortals threatens the future they are desperate to return to...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSXRMSY1

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@jack-hollings.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 6:01 PM

"They came into this war expecting to lose. They did, again and again. But with failure no longer
being the end, it became simply one more advantage to exploit. Who knew—maybe that was exactly the
kind of thing that'd get them to the Tower."

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#timetravelauthors #shortfiction

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@maykenalanna.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 4:07 PM

#TimeTravelAuthors Day 2

My WIP is a Middle Grande #TimeTravel novel. The MC is 12, but the real-life children of King Francis are younger (5, 6, and going on 8). My own kid is 16.
I had doubts if my written talking was realistic.⬇️

@rammwriter.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 3:21 PM

#wipsnips #amquerying #sffwriters #writingcommunity #writersky #timetravelauthors #speclit #amwriting #authors #thrillerwriters #writers

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@paulgbriggs.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 3:36 AM

#TimeTravelAuthors What are those things in the dark beyond the treeline?
They're too big to be dogs…
…and it looks like they've seen us…

The Locksmith Trilogy

1. Introduce your story (optional: spooky and/or like a Twilight Zone episode)
@scottleminski.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 12:01 AM

"In time, when you are ready." What words, if not these, drives curiosity?
Alone, ready, by her reckoning, Erin, opened her mother's antique hope chest, unleashing voices she wasn't prepared to hear.
Some things are best left in the past, she believed. Not so in #wip 'Unfold'
#TimeTravelAuthors 10/1

@miwwdu-sitsom.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 8:44 PM

Hey #TimeTravelAuthors!

Want to learn about a Time Protection Agency except they're a totally misguided cult of assassins that are pretty much just pawns of fate? I'm posting about the Defenders of Fate for #Juniplex (this month is June, shush)!

@jack-hollings.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 6:22 PM

An endless war. An endless invasion. She knows why she is there, but there is something she's forgetting. In a battle against time, what is the first to go? And what is the first to come back?

a.co/d/0bsdkQQ3

#TimeTravelAuthors #writing #shortfiction #indiewriting

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